Annual Meeting Plenary Sessions	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Oeiras, Portugal 21 - 26 October 2003
Programme & Schedule		Date: 24 October 2003

TDWG 2003 Plenary Meeting Schedule

Friday 24 October 2003

17:30 - late

Evening Reception at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

Saturday 25 October 2003

09:00	Welcome & Overview (Stan Blum) (Ionians Room - the big auditorium) Welcome Overview of Programme
09:15 (20 mins each)	General, SDD & Spatial Data Workshops (Parallel Sessions) General Presentations (Democritus Room) Spatial Data Workshop Convenor: Reed Beaman (Leucippus Room) Structure of Descriptive Data (SDD) Workshop Convenor: Gregor Hagedorn (Ionians Room - the big auditorium) BiodiversityWorld: a GRID-based distributed environment for studying global biodiversity patterns Author: T. Sutton et al The Catalogue of Life: a global partnership between Species 2000 and ITIS, to index the world's known species Author: Frank Bisby & Michael Ruggiero SEEK: Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge Author: James Beach Integrating GIS tools in the Web Services Architecture of GBIF Author: Aaron Beller, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem BioGIS: A Web-Based Environment for Analyzing, Modeling and Visualizing Biodiversity Data Author: Ronen Kadmon Interoperable Geospatial Referencing by using OpenGIS® Web Services Author: Jens Fitzke Federated Description Services and the Library of Life; or, What can we do with SDD anyway? Author: Kevin Thiele An SDD subset example for Data Interchange Author: P. Bryan Heidorn
10:15	Coffee Break (Poster presenters to set up posters during Coffee Break)
10:35	SDD & Spatial Data Workshops - continued - (Parallel Sessions - Rooms as before)
12:30	Lunch
14:00	SDD & Spatial Data Workshops - continued - (Parallel Sessions - Rooms as before)
15:20	Coffee Break
15:40	SDD Workshop - continued - (Ionians Room - the big auditorium) Spatial Data Workshop - continued - (Note change of room for this session - Democritus Room) Break-Out Sessions KE EMu Informal Users Group - Chair: Adrian Rissoné (Direction Meeting Room, Floor 2, Main Building) Meet at TDWG Registration Desk at 16:00 Posters & Computer Demonstrations (Leucippus Room) AlgaTerra - Applying Type Designation and Factual Data to a Berlin Model database Author: Karl Glück, Kusber W.-H. and Jahn R. What name can do alone: An Application of Formal Concept Analysis with Rough Set Approximation to Multiple Hierarchies Visualisation by TaxoNote Comparator [Poster version of paper presented on 23 October] Author: Nozomi Ytow 1, Akira Sato 2, David R. Morse 3 and David McL. Roberts 4. 1 Institute of Biological Sciences / Gene Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan. 2 Institute of Information Sciences and Electronics / Science Information Processing Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan. 3 Faculty of Mathematics and Computing, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, United Kingdom. 4 Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom The New York Botanical Garden Specimen Type Index for Mushrooms and Related Groups (Agaricales and Gasteromycetales) Author: Barbara Thiers The RHS Database of Cultivated Plant Diversity Author: Dr Janet J Cubey & Rupert G Wilson, Royal Horticultural Society's Garden, Wisley, Woking, Surrey GU23 6QB, UK Technical introduction to the BioCASE software modules Author: Markus Döring & Anton Güntsch, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Department of Biodiversity Informatics, Königin-Luise-Str.6-8, D-14191 Berlin, Germany BioGIS: A Web-Based Environment for Analyzing, Modeling and Visualizing Biodiversity Data Author: Ronen Kadmon, Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat-Ram, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel The uBio Taxonomic Information System Author: Dave Remsen, uBio Project Developer, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543 Nature Navigator and interactive finding aid for British wildlife Author: Charles Hussey, Grant, Malcolm, Hewzulla, Dilshat. The Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
17:00	Discussion, Ballots & Summary (Stan Blum) (Ionians Room - the big auditorium)
17:30	End of Session Transport to Hotel
19:30	TDWG Banquet Depart Hotel Praia Mar at 19:30 (provisional time)

 

Sunday 26 October 2003

All sessions to be held in the Ionians Room (the big auditorium).

09:00	TDWG Business TDWG 2002 Meeting Minutes Treasurer's Report Election of Officers TDWG Subgroups ABCD (Schema & Protocol)
09:20 (20 mins each)	Presentations speciesLink - The Brazilian experience on setting up a DiGIR network Author: Renato De Giovanni Functioning principles of the Belgian GBIF Node (BeBIF) Author: Patricia Mergen, Piette, D., Duflost, J., Wautelet, F. & Herzog, R. GBIFDEABCDCDEFDENHSINBIOCASEENBI... - common approaches to specimen networking Author: Andrea Hahn Data Cleaning Tools and Methodologies Author: Arthur Chapman
10:40	Coffee Break
11:00 (20 mins each)	Presentations Semi-automatic polyclave key generation Author: Robert A. Morris, Jacob K. Asiedu, Robert D. Stevenson, and Hua Tang Advances in IPNI Author: Sally Hinchcliffe
11:40	Discussion
12:10	Lunch
13:45 (20 mins each)	Presentations An update from Kew - including progress with Herbarium digitisation, the electronic Plant Information Centre project, and other new systems Author: Mark Jackson Improving the web based data discovery and mapping experience Author: Paul Flemons
14:25	GBIF Status of the GBIF network, implementation of the GBIF work programme 2003, and the plan for 2004. Authors: D.Hobern, L.Speers, P.Bjørn, G.Ksouris and H.Saarenmaa
15:25	Coffee Break
15:45	TDWG Subgroups Taxonomic Names Structure of Descriptive Data Spatial Data Standards Other Subgroups
16:40	Summary and TDWG 2004 (Stan Blum)
17:10	End of Session Transport to Hotel (subject to sufficient numbers - a head count will be made Saturday morning of those requiring transport)